Main contributors

The people listed in this section have contributed substantially to SKIRT and/or PTS (the Python toolkit for SKIRT), where "substantially" is loosely defined as more than 1000 lines of C++ code, Python code, and/or documentation.

Maarten Baes conceived of SKIRT and wrote the first several versions of the code. Nowadays he determines the strategic direction and supervises all further development. Once in a while, he contributes some nice new feature himself.

Peter Camps overhauled the SKIRT code, readying the class design for further expansion. He is currently the main SKIRT developer and the chief software design architect, acting as a gatekeeper for all new code contributions. Peter also initiated the PTS effort and helps Maarten with the strategy decisions.

Gert De Geyter developed FitSKIRT and contributed ideas and code segments to SKIRT and PTS.

Sam Verstocken developed the multi-processing capability of SKIRT and is currently developing major new PTS modules for pre-processing obervational data and fitting panchromatic SKIRT models to these data.

Dries Van De Putte developed the data-parallelization capability in SKIRT and will soon be working on fundamentally new capabilities of the SKIRT code. Stay tuned.

Other contributors

The following people have contributed to the SKIRT and/or PTS effort by providing code segments and/or extensively using the tools and offering feedback. They are listed in alphabetical order on last name.

Killian Braun

Marjorie Decleir

Ilse De Looze

Jacopo Fritz

Tom Hendrix

Alexander Mosenkov

Christian Peest

Waad Saftly

Marko Stalevski

James Trayford

Sebastiaan Vandewoude

Sébastien Viaene

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